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Joab reported to David the number of warriors.[a] In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding[b] soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:5 tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:5 tn Heb “a thousand thousands and 100,000.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 21:5 tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:9 has variant figures: “In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.”

Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel(A) there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.

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And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

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